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Any particular angle on how such a collapse might come about? The biggest threats I see are the debt problems in the Chinese property sector explode causing th
by throwaway6532 5y ago
Any particular angle on how such a collapse might come about?
The biggest threats I see are the debt problems in the Chinese property sector explode causing their "commercial paper" market to set off a chain reaction causing global contagion due to China being nearly everyone's number one trading partner. Or the US has an internal conflict and that majorly affects things (which is what I'm considering in this question). The other is simply demographics spell the writing on the wall that populations will continue to shrink and shrink and I would imagine it potentially gets to a point where the amount of infrastructure we've built the modern world on top of wouldn't have sufficient human capital to keep it running below a certain critical threshold of population size, but that one is a bit longer off.
- gregjor 5y agoAll of those scenarios would create much more urgent and immediate problems than losing access to Twitter or Jira. Banking, for example. Food, energy, transportation would all suffer, globally. The Chinese economy and internal US conflicts are out of your control, so they merit as much worry as an asteroid strike. We’re suffering through a global pandemic now and the internet has so far survived. If demographics worry you get busy having children.